FLASH #2
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Art and cover by FRANCIS MANAPUL
Variant cover by RYAN SOOK
Size: 32 pages
Price: 2.99
This review contains spoilers, click here to read
I enjoyed #1 but this wound up way down the reading pile. Partly, it's because there were so many other books demanding immediate attention this week (the end of Siege, a new creative team on Booster Gold, the debut of Justice League: Generation Lost, the return of Birds of Prey). Mainly, it's because I'm sick and tired of the Rogues.
Admittedly, the bunch who showed up at the end of last month's instalment aren't THE Rogues, but they're pretty darned similar, being a bunch of future cops nicking the villains' shtick. And I'm simply tired of seeing Captain Cold, Weather Wizard and co show up across the DC Universe as a team. Time was when any of them individually could provide fodder enough for a story as a decent threat to the Flash. These days, they talk a good game, but act like a bunch of sad co-dependents.
According to Geoff Johns' script this issue, they even have a long-standing agreement by which they spring one another out of jail (no they haven't). And it's getting to be too much. I like to see them together once in a blue moon but all the time? As a permanent grouping of massively powered criminals they're a pretty sorry lot, being unable to take down one hero (let's turn a blind eye to that time they, er, kicked a powerless Bart Allen to death).
Plus, I want to see Barry Allen have a few fairly straightforward adventures before being involved in time-twisting tales of the sort we've had plenty of since his return. The idea that 25th century lawmen have come back to apprehend him for a murder they claim he'll commit isn't exactly a grabber, either. Any good lawyer who's seen Minority Report could get Barry out of that one.
The good Rogues, who style themselves The Renegades, prove as inept at catching Barry en masse as the bad Rogues, and soon disappear with their tails between their legs. But not before they do ... something or other.
Barry races towards a building following ice particles. Or are they invisible footprints? Beats me. Johns lets illustrator Francis Manapul carry the storytelling for a couple of pages here, leaving things silent as Barry rushes towards a building and runs through people's apartments while the place is crumbling (or maybe on fire, which is what the colours suggest). By the bottom of the second page it's obvious he's rescuing folk, but it would've helped to see our man getting people out of the way all along, not seemingly running past them to reach a mother and child in more immediate danger.
A few pages later Barry tells Iris he was rescuing folk from a temporal wave that was ageing the building into a deadly condition. Which is nice. I can't see why we weren't simply told this at the time. Lovely as Manapul's work is, it wasn't amazing enough in the sequence to merit a lack of words.
After the rescue scene, though, with the sound back on, we're treated to one of the most impressive, and funniest, superhero repair sequences I've seen - when it comes to kids, it turns out that Barry's a very patient fellow. I also enjoyed the scenes at the Central City crime lab, as Barry proves rubbish at understanding the concept of chain of command.
The other big scene this issue is that Rogues moment, with Captain Cold telling Captain Boomerang to prove he's worthy of the Rogues by breaking out of prison on his own for once. Somehow, I think he will.
While I have my problems with some of the story choices, Johns' script is nicely measured, with decent dialogue when we do get it - I particularly like the two pages of Barry and Iris chatting about his day, which makes me keen to see them have a conversation not at a crime scene.
Manapul's art, the above-mentioned silent pages apart, is a joy. The character designs are confident and work on the page, and Central City continues to look fantastic. His depiction of super-speed is getting more consistent and my biggest moan is the cover, which isn't the most exciting. All right, Barry is running in snow, so he could slip and bash his knee, but he doesn't seem to be in any special danger from a handcuff unattached to anyone else.
The colours are great, mind. It's that man Brian Buccellato, Manapul's partner on the interiors who's giving this book a trademark look every bit as much as Mr Manapul.
All in all, a good comic with one stand-out scene, unfortunately balanced by one confusing sequence. Cut down on the gauntlet of super-villains and I'll likely be a happier bunny.
Story: 3 - Good
Art: 4 - Very Good
Art: 4 - Very Good
Aha, just noticed that some pages are drawn by one Joel Gomez (come on DC, if you’re going to give cover credits, don’t tell half the story). So some of my comments may apply to him. I don’t know!
And I swear I used paragraphs. They disappeared is all 🙁
Oh bollocks, even editing with extra par breaks, I can’t seem to make this not look like a mass of grey. Anyone seen my pars?